PICK OUT; REJECT Every month the farmer culls the nonplaying hensand sells them to the local butcher.

CULVERT

ARTIFICIAL CHANNEL FOR WATER

CURMUDGEON

CRANKY PERSON

DEBAUCH

TO CORRUPT, SEDUCE FROM VIRTUE OR DUTY, INDULGE

DEMAGOGUE

SOMEONE WHO APPEALS TO THE PREJUDICES AND EMOTIONS OF THE PEOPLE INAN ATTEMPT TO GAIN POWER.. A consummate demagogue, [Joseph]McCarthy played upon cold war emotions and made charges sofantastic that frightened people believed the worst.

DEMUR

TO QUESTION OR OPPOSE

DESUETUDE

CESSATION OF USE; DISUSE

DENIGRATE

TO SULLY, BELITTLE, DEFAME

DETRACTION

SLANDERING, VERBAL ATTACK, ASPERSION

DISPARAGE

TO BELITTLE

DISPORT

AMUSE The popularity of Florida as a winter resort is constantlyincreasing; each year, thousands more disport themselves at Miamiand Palm Beach.

DISSIPATE

TO SCATTER, PURSUE PLEASURE TO EXCESS

DISSOLUTION

DISINTEGRATION, LOOSENESS IN MORALS

DISTAFF

THE FEMALE BRANCH OF A FAMILY (OPP.= AGNATE), A DEVICE TO SPIN YARN

DISTRAIT

ABSENTMINDED, DISTRACTED

DOCKET

Calender of court cases.
A brief entry of the court proceedings.
The book containing such entries.
A summary of a document
A list of things to be done.
directions for assembling or operating.

DOUGHTY

COURAGEOUS

DUDGEON

ANGRY INDIGNATION Higgins was so frustrated by such a basic errorthat he stormed out of the arena for the mid-session interval inhigh dudgeon.

DYSPEPTIC

SUFFERING FROM INDIGESTION

ECUMENICAL

ENCOMPASSING A WIDE VARIETY OF FAITHS OR BELIEFS, OFTEN IN REFERENCETO RELIGION.. (AFFECTED OR EXAGGERATED EARNESTNESS, ESPECIALLY INCHOICE AND USE OF LANGUAGE.)